Booklyn Artists Alliance is hosting an open call to New York based self-publishing artists.
LAST 4 DAYS TO SUBMIT TO BOOKLYN’S SOLO-EXHIBITION OPEN CALL DEADLINE IS JUNE 8TH
Last Year’s Cake From La Villita Bakery on View at The City Reliquary
A salvaged window display, a wedding cake made of styrofoam and cream by Alfonso Sosa, primary baker at La Villita Bakery, is currently on view at The City Reliquary. (The bakery was squeezed out of the neighborhood a year ago due to a huge rent increase.)
Whoever at The City Reliquary saved a display wedding cake from La Villita Bakery for posterity, was pretty clever. One can now see a little piece of local bakery history, get a satisfying slice of nostalgia, and be up close and personal with one of the strange (lost) wonders of our neighborhood’s recent past—the revolving styrofoam and cream wedding cake. With it’s own unique patina it sits on a museum display counter like rosy queen majesty. An article published in the WG, about the Sosa family, exactly one year ago today, accompanies the exhibit.
The City Reliquary is a mini-museum located on Metropolitan Ave, devoted to the display of New York City artifacts, and “connects visitors to both the past and present of New York.”
Videorover at NURTUREart / Calendar of Opportunities for Artists and Curators
Javier Bosques, ‘Iris’ 2012. HD video, TRT 3:45
This is the last weekend to submit a proposal for the 8th season of Videorover; NURTUREart’s dedicated video program, which “…aims at becoming an ever-expanding forum for emerging artists working in video.”
This season, NURTUREart is seeking proposals that focus on video as installation. The deadline is tomorrow, April 21, 2014, at midnight.
Greenpoint Pulaski Bridge is Ready for Her Close-Up
Poster by Nathan Punwar
Here’s your chance to catch a sneak peak showing of The Circle Bridge, tonight at 7:30 at Dixon Place.
Moviehouse’s The Circle Bridge is a new site-specific video performance that combines live choreography of Mayuna Shimizu’s Blue Muse Dance and large-scale animated projections of Nathan Punwar to tell a story of interconnectivity, travel and history. Audience members follow their own distinct narrative as they walk the span of the 2810 foot Pulaski Bridge that connects Greenpoint, Brooklyn with Long Island City, Queens across the Newtown Creek. Along their walk, they encounter four separate projections and two unique performances that each tell a distinct part of their tale. Each element is integrally designed to give each viewer a unique all-encompassing visual, audio and physical experience.
Rockaway Sandcastle Competition Winners!
Photos by Derek Schultz, Courtesy Creative Time
This past Sunday, the sandy beaches of the Rockaways played perfect host to the second annual Creative Time artist sandcastle competition. Ten unique teams made up of area artists, dug and patted and wetted down the boundless supply of sandy material. A raucous day was had. The esteemed winners were chosen by a specially selected group of judges. Here are the results.
1st PRIZE – A ‘gold’ shovel, a bucket with a bottle of tequila, and a $500 check, went to Jamie Isenstein for “Disappearing Sculptures.”